I remember long ago there was a Simpsons Halloween episode where Homer and Bart mistakenly got on a space shuttle heading towards the sun. The world was ending on Y2K, and this shuttle's mission was to take all of the annoying celebrities to their doom. (Lisa and Marge made it on the shuttle taking the leading lights of society to start a new world.)

On Homer's shuttle: Tom Arnold, Pauly Shore, Spike Lee, and Rosey O'Donnell, who was leading all of the passengers in a blaring rendition of the Trolley Song. Very, very fitting.

"Isn't it interesting I always know who the NewAgers are - and have posts about them before they fall? O.K. - there's nothing interesting about Rosie O'Donnell - but what about me? I'm interesting, damn it!"

I think your confusing OWS rapist. It's easy to do, there are so many of them. Unless they get caught, then they have absolutely nothing to do with OWS. Except for staying in their tents, eating their food, and holding up their signs. Otherwise, these rapist just show up out of the blue.

Also infiltrating OWS camps but having no affiliation what so ever...Thiefs, drug addicts, marxist, Nazis, communists, truthers, exobitionist, public urinators and defecators.

But everyone knows that these are all right wing agents, sent to discredit the good name of the 99%.

But to your question, I had to look it up, yes it was Hoft. Now I have a question for you. Are you implying that someone in the media might have a bias in reporting news?

The cancellation is fitting coda to your posts on happiness. She seemed an unhappy and angry person, which does not make good television. Ellen Degeneres seems happy and garners millions of viewers, so it's not lesbianism.

I find it fascinating how, since the 70s and the advent of the cult of the smiley face, if someone "seems happy" they can get away with murder. They can screw over people willy-nilly, but plant a smile on their faces and everyone is conditioned to go "Awww" and the world is their oyster.

I mean, Obama-promoting anti-vaccine Ellen? The "neurotic and crazy" woman who sold "The Secret" even before Oprah got her hands on it? Who famously abandons pets ("tell the dog privately that she'd be going home with Ellen") and insists we must "save the planet"?

Yeah, she's one happy camper - deserving of a show on American airwaves, promoted to American airheads, everywhere. Now everybody smile.

I don't think that they cancel Madcow, at least any time soon. I checked the TV listings a week or two ago (when we were talking about Rush, etc.), and she had the best ratings on her network. Partly, that probably had something to do with the time slot, but she still may not be alienating as many people as you and I probably think that she should.

Ellen Degeneres seems happy and garners millions of viewers, so it's not lesbianism.

And, not surprising, almost all of them are women. I think some of the Oprah crowd. I don't like the show personally, but can see how it and she are attractive to a large number on the distaff side.

She is a pretty good comedian, has good writers, and brings something to the morning bon-bon circuit that the others seem to struggle with. The other female-oriented late morning shows seem to have hostesses who tried to learn comedy after they were hostesses, where Ellen did stand up long before she had her own show.

Being a guy, I don't like her show, but I find almost all of the female directed morning and early afternoon shows to be offensive to me in some respects. And, sometimes wonder why the audience doesn't go and get a job, instead of wasting their lives watching this sort of stuff.

That said, Degeneres' show is actually less offensive to me than most of those shows. Worst for me? Probably The View.

Although she believes a lot of stupid things, I gather she does not trumpet them on her show like Rosie did, and even Oprah came to do.

She went pretty hard on The Secret, but otherwise, you're right, you've got to have my antennae to catch a lot of it. She'll talk of visiting a psychic or something in the course of telling a story - and she's not above having a John Edwards type on - but mostly she soft-peddles it as much as possible.

Dr. Oz is an example of what hurt Oprah. Even though he is doing well, he's a nut, and she increasingly felt free to expose her nuttiness to the audience, and that's what felled her.

Thank YOU! That fruitcake (married to an even bigger one) should've been over and done with years ago, but he carries on, with hardly anyone making a peep, giving out quack advice every time I catch a glance at his program. It makes me feel like I'm in some alternaverse whenever I see him, and my faith in humanity is lessened. I swear - if all the evil and misinformation Oprah has unleashed on the world was exposed honestly - she and her "guests" would be strung up on flag poles all over the nation until there was nothing else to work with.

Bruce Hayden,

I don't think that they cancel Madcow, at least any time soon. I checked the TV listings a week or two ago (when we were talking about Rush, etc.), and she had the best ratings on her network. Partly, that probably had something to do with the time slot, but she still may not be alienating as many people as you and I probably think that she should.

Imagine if you will that you are in prison and haven't seen a woman in years. The warden hates you. He offers you the chance to see one of the following shows: Oprah, Rosie, Ellen, or The View. You desperately want to look at a woman while you rub one out. Which show would you choose?

The show -- I didn't watch -- apparently had an interesting format: No audience. Just two people talking.

It can be: if the host isn't a boring chore. Rosie O'Donnell is a tedious bore and unable to actually have an interesting discussion because she lacks the intellect to pull it off successfully.

She is a pretty good comedian, has good writers, and brings something to the morning bon-bon circuit that the others seem to struggle with. The other female-oriented late morning shows seem to have hostesses who tried to learn comedy after they were hostesses, where Ellen did stand up long before she had her own show.

Rosie was a solid comedienne once, however, Ellen is the best one I ever saw (most female comediennes just aren't that good but Ellen, legitimately, was hilarious).

Ellen is also entertaining. Keep in mind, when she overdid the lesbian thing, her sitcom died quickly. She learned.

Dr. Oz is an example of what hurt Oprah. Even though he is doing well, he's a nut, and she increasingly felt free to expose her nuttiness to the audience, and that's what felled her.

Thank YOU! That fruitcake (married to an even bigger one) should've been over and done with years ago, but he carries on, with hardly anyone making a peep, giving out quack advice every time I catch a glance at his program.

Thank goodness I am not alone! I hear several times a day from patients the latest nonsense that Dr Oz is peddling. Drives me crazy.Very hard to dissuade them from his advice. After all, he's good looking, he's on television, and he went to Harvard!

Can't stand O'Donnell, but she was funny on Curb Your Enthusiasm (or maybe she was just part of a funny episode, "The Bisexual").

Oprah has really hurt her brand. Ending her show to start her own network, her very OWN network, named after her, has so far been an embarrassing flop.

Ted Turner has networks named after him (TNT TBS TCM), but those networks aren't *about* Turner. It's kinda creepy to own your own network named after you, the content of which is mostly a shrine to your person.

Oprah's long cultivated a cult of personality, but this seems like a step too far even for fans of her erstwhile show. More importantly, it just doesn't work in a business sense-- her network just cannot attract the kind of viewership it needs to survive.

Hence the embarrassing appeals she recently made on Twitter to Nielsen box viewers, which got her in trouble, see here.